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Andrew Rasiej, founder and current chairman of MOUSE, says, "Politics is broken. Our democracy is broken. There are 513,000 elected officials in this country. The relationship has been top down. What we learned from the Dean campaign is the power of the person to person connection. 'There are 513,000 egocentric politicians in the US. Not one of them is netcentric.' If they were netcentric, they'd say: 'My constituents know more than I do.' We can use the Internet to support the status quo, which is how it's been up through now. Or we can use it to do something new."

Mr. Rasiej is also served on the New York City Board of Education’s task force on technology and has spearheaded several innovative projects that support efforts to bridge the “Digital Divide" in public education.

Mr. Rasiej is the chairman and co-founder of the Digital Club Network (DCN), the Internet’s largest live music channel. DCN broadcasts concerts of established and emerging artists from premier music venues around the world and makes archive recordings of these performances available for free over the Internet. Concurrent with his involvement in music and technology, Mr. Rasiej is also co-founder of the world’s largest annual digital music conference, “Plug In" which is attended by executives from major record labels and technology companies.

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